New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1936

Plumes in the Dust (by Sophie
Treadwell; Arthur Hopkins, producer). The theatre enjoys
better-mannered audiences than baseball, prize fighting and grand
opera, but there are occasions when, on the stage, a playwright's line
overshoots its dramatic mark and hits the audience on the funnybone. At
Plumes in the Dust, which presents Actor Henry Hull as Edgar Allan Poe,
one of several such shots occurred last week when Poe confessed to
Elmira Shelton that he had been drinking, and Elmira, looking with
tragic concern at his haggard face, exclaimed: ''Oh, Edgar, will you...